Ultrathin silicon solar microcells for semitransparent, mechanically flexible and microconcentrator module designs |
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Authors: | Yoon Jongseung Baca Alfred J Park Sang-Il Elvikis Paulius Geddes Joseph B Li Lanfang Kim Rak Hwan Xiao Jianliang Wang Shuodao Kim Tae-Ho Motala Michael J Ahn Bok Yeop Duoss Eric B Lewis Jennifer A Nuzzo Ralph G Ferreira Placid M Huang Yonggang Rockett Angus Rogers John A |
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Affiliation: | Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois 61801, USA. |
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Abstract: | The high natural abundance of silicon, together with its excellent reliability and good efficiency in solar cells, suggest its continued use in production of solar energy, on massive scales, for the foreseeable future. Although organics, nanocrystals, nanowires and other new materials hold significant promise, many opportunities continue to exist for research into unconventional means of exploiting silicon in advanced photovoltaic systems. Here, we describe modules that use large-scale arrays of silicon solar microcells created from bulk wafers and integrated in diverse spatial layouts on foreign substrates by transfer printing. The resulting devices can offer useful features, including high degrees of mechanical flexibility, user-definable transparency and ultrathin-form-factor microconcentrator designs. Detailed studies of the processes for creating and manipulating such microcells, together with theoretical and experimental investigations of the electrical, mechanical and optical characteristics of several types of module that incorporate them, illuminate the key aspects. |
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